The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-07-08

Wsl hid. lac few monests Briskmaa step
ped out Of his tetssat ard sdvaocng de.
chareeda shotgun q Defeef, hteeally blow.
ibg o6 ths top q thS adultesse's head. Brink.
man auda bsothsr4nlsw Il his gave them.
selves up 70 The autAoritiss.
Aspec,al from whichita, Kan, sayss A.
D. Bird, with his wife and daughter, Ictta,
hes arrived In the city and relates . terrible
story Of TIE wrong and suffering endured
while confined In the peison at Del Norte, In
Old Mexico. Last winter Bird was manager
Of N opera company touring IN that country,
and while playing H. Del Norte the entire
company were arrested ipon . Aimsy pretext,
and thrown into the same prison In Which
Editor Cutting wss couaned. They were de.
MED . bearing OF TRIAL. and were not even
allowed 10 Gee or converse With Americans,
though several tried to see them. While they
were confined four members Of the company
died Of smallpox, while Others suffered pri.
vations and sickness. Lately the company
were released, having lost ii: their wardrobe
and musical Instruments. Steps have been
taken to secure fedreis by placing the matter
In the hands Of the proper authorities.
David Armstrong has had bis bond q 70.
csiver Of the Fidelity National bank accepted
and 10 now IN charge Of the a6airs OF tina,
defunct institution. Comptroller Trenholm
and Solicitor McCue went TO Washington
Wednesday night, having given to the re,
ceiver and United States district attorney
here respectively such Instructions % could
be given 1t this time. Commissioner Tren,
holm, In conversation, said he wosld deal
with this bank upon tie principle thai
national banks hold . aduciary relation to thu
public. and that the profits upon stock are IN
part . confederation for the proper discharge
Of the trust BY the officers chosen BY III.
steckholders. And when, - In case Of the
Fidelity bank, this trust is betrayed by tn.
Officers; It is the duty Of the government tc
award exemplary punishment, not only to the
men active in wrong doing, but also to those
who, being in . position to protect the inter
est OF depositors, neglected or omitted t.
discharge that duty.
A dispatch from Eagle Pass, Texas, says
Intelligence was received here at . late hou
lsst night that . %sanguiusry conflict was it
progress between river guards aud smuggler,
at q point fifteen miles below Piedras Negras
In Mexico. The conflict lie still in progress
A scouting party of river guards and police
numbering twenty-five men, surprised . ban,
OF about twenty smugglcrs, well armed, Will
. cavalcadc Of twenty pack mules. The SNUG
glets at once showed eight, and At the frs
volley two Of the guards fell dead. Th,
guards fell back and dismissed q courier 10
achievements. The emugglers fell back to
werd u e Rio Grandc with the evident pur
pose Of srsssing the river to the America,
side. The smugglcrs in their retreat are keep
ing up . desultory skirm.sh with the rein
forced guards, who arc passing them in tn
rear. A courier arrived In Piedras Ncgra
late this morning from the scene Of actiol
and reports the fight still in progress, and on
more guard killed. The loss of the smugglcr
is not known.